Hi, Peter Miller wrote: > I was not aware that the change had not gone through. I though anonymous > edits were banned. already
They are, client-side, in Potlatch. With any other editor, or talking directly to the API, you can still make anonymous edits. > So all those edits by <no name> on OSM Mapper > are a random selection of unidentified contributors? Yes. All you know about them is that they haven't used Potlatch in the last few months because then they'd have had to make their edits public. > Also, I wonder how we contact them to see if they agree to the new > licence The information on who they are (i.e. what screen name they have and perhaps an e-mail address) is in the database, anyone with database admin privileges *can* contact them and it has happened in one or two grave cases in the past that TomH (reluctantly) played messenger between the community and the mapper. > 1) Was it the right answer? We do actually have the IP address somewhere > on the servers so the edit so not really anonymous. As said, we also have the name; if the Chinese government hacks our servers and someone was so naive to rely on our not giving out his name for his privacy then he's in jail. > 2) Was the decision made is a good way? We're not talking a decision, we're talking a non-decision. Nobody has decided that action should not be taken; but nobody has decided that action should be taken either, so that leaves is with the status quo. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
